Setting up Chorded Input Actions

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I’m trying to do something that seems incredibly simple, but I’m running into problems and I don’t understand where it goes wrong.

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Goal: I want to detect when the player presses down + jump.

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• I made an Input Action for getting up/down on the left thumbstick, IA_UpDown
• IA_UpDown is an Axis1D
• I made an Chorded Input action, IA_JumpDownPlatform, that’s only supposed to fire when IA_UpDown is active + the Gamepad Face Button Bottom is pressed
• Gamepad Face Button Bottom is also used for just jumping normally, triggering IA_Jump

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Setup:

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Order of all Input Actions

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• All input actions are set to consume lower priority input actions

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Behavior I’m seeing:

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• When I start the game, don’t move and press Gamepad Face Button Bottom, it correctly triggers IA_Jump
• IA_UpDown is not active since I didn’t touch the thumbstick

• However, if I move Left Thumbstick in any direction and let go
• Press Gamepad Face Button Bottom to jump
• The character now doesn’t jump, the IA_Jump action is not triggered
• Instead, IA_JumpDownPlatform is triggered, even though IA_UpDown is not active.

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C++ to trigger:

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So my questions are:

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1. How can IA_JumpDownPlatform still trigger when IA_UpDown is not active?
2. Why does the behavior change after moving Left Thumbstick?
3. Is this not the correct way to set up Chorded Actions?
4. How can I correctly only trigger IA_JumpDownPlatform when IA_UpDown is active, and otherwise just trigger IA_Jump?

These are some videos that explain how to set it up and I feel like I’ve done it correctly:

Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial - Enhanced Input Part 3: Chorded Action

Unreal Engine 5.1 - Enhanced Input - Multi-Key Actions

The official documentation doesn’t mention much, if anything, on how to do the setup:

Enhanced Input

Any help or insights are appreciated.